Conferences That Matter, How Blogs Are Changing Philanthropy, and More: Friday’s Roundup
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
August 7, 2009 | Read Time: 1 minute
- What conferences this fall will really mean something to the nonprofit world? Lucy Bernholz, an adviser to foundations and donors, has a list on her blog Philanthropy 2173. Among them: September’s Social Capital Markets 2009 meeting, in San Francisco.
- Blogs have become forums for public debate about philanthropy, enabling people beyond foundation presidents to “convene conversations and say how the field is changing,” writes Nathaniel Whittemore on his blog about social entrepreneurship at Change.org.
- Hildy Gottlieb, a nonprofit consultant, shares some questions that can energize boards on her blog Creating the Future.
- In a Fast Company blog, Brian Reich, an expert on technology and media, writes that for President Obama’s Social Innovation Fund to succeed it shouldn’t support the usual social-entrepreneur suspects and should reach out to a broader audience of potential innovators.
- Ken McIntyre, a media and public policy fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, questions the Associated Press’s decision to work with ProPublica and other nonprofit journalism groups, arguing that the donors that support them have a liberal bias. His opinion article appears in The Washington Examiner.
- The Lumina Foundation for Education, in Indianapolis, is exploring “ultra-transparency” by discussing broadly its goal of getting more Americans to graduate college, says Bruce S. Trachtenberg on the blog of the Communications Network, an organization that represents people who handle public relations for grant makers.
